Tag: stamps

I’ve been in a bit of dark mood recently and this is the fruit of my crafty darkness…I wanted to utilise some of my beloved Canvas Corp Brands products but with, hopefully, a bit more grungy outcome..Using Canvas Corp Printed Cardboard as a base, I played with Tattered Angels Naturally Aged kit – Peeled Paint. It created a very textured look with the original cardboard circle prints showing underneath. I totally love the effect!!!In the process, the paint bubbled so I rubbed it off uncovering the layers underneath – another bonus!To add even more texture, I embossed various background stamps.As a base for the ‘face’, Architextures Short Base Wings were in perfect contrast with the darkness of the rest of the layout.The MDF wings were coloured with Tattered Angels Colour Wash; so was the face.
As the final touch, I mixed some deco stones with Glimmer Glaze and spilled it around the wings.

Can you see that texture?!?!?!
Let me tell you – DesignIt paste from Colourcraft UK is amazing!
I put it into a lace mould (one for cake decorating), gave it a couple of hours to dry and… a detailed, flexible lace came out!

All the colours are Metallic Aztec Paints by Colourcraft C&A Ltd – the project can out so much better than expected.

A crafty friend of mine, Mark Gould, is an extremely talented man. He’s an accomplished mixed media teacher who has recently released his own stamps. I couldn’t resist and purchased one of them, called ‘Gypsy Rose’.

To colour the stamp, I used Brusho powders.
They have also been used to create the background on the canvas.

Confession time – I am not much of a stamper. I use them to create texture in the background but not often as the main feature of a project so this was quite a challenge for me since the blog hop was about mixing Colourcraft products with Rubber Dance stamps…

… but before I carry on talking about myself … and the project … make sure that you read till the end as there might be a giveaway mentioned…

At first, I was planning an art journal page but… I wanted to make something that I will be able to share with others so the final decision was to make cards, which I later donated to my local Scouts group (they have regular craft fairs to raise money for the scout hut) – two birds with one stone wink wink

I used the same two Brusho colours on both cards – Aquamarine and Yellow – but in reverse order. The colour pigments reacted with water creating watercolour shades.

Pretty and easy!!! And the Scouts loved them so… cant get much better than that, right?!

GIVEAWAY

One lucky winner will receive both a €25 Gift Certificate to RubberDance
AND a £25 Gift Certificate to Colourcraft!

Visit all the fabulous designers from both teams on each day of the hop

leave a comment for them for your chance to win!

The more blogs you comment on, the more chances you have to WIN!
(One comment per blog please.)

You have until the end of Wednesday, 14th February to leave your comments.

Make sure you visit all the other Blog Hop posts – there is some awesome art to be seen!!!

I'm not a big card maker but there are times when I'd much rather make one than buy one. End of the school year is one of those occasions. Being a teacher myself, I find it much more heart-warming to receive a handmade gift than a bunch of flowers. Following that idea, I made a quick card.

I have used papers, stencil and a stamp from Scrapbooking.gr – an online scrap supplies shop that I work with. Paints and always are from Tattered Angels.

In this month’s package from Scrapbooking.gr, I received a set of Kaisercraft goodies: a 3D Bird wall hanging and ‘Keepsake’ collection bundle of 12×12 papers.
My mind was racing… what do I make? what do I make?

I started by altering the wall hanging – the weathered white wood paper looks so realistic glued onto the MDF elements! With layers of stencilled textures and ripped stickers from the paper collection, building up the background was so much fun. I topped it all up with sprinkles of Tattered Angels chalkboard mists.
Here’s the result…

I have made a video tutorial to show you the process. I hope you enjoy it.

So… I might have told you about the Artful Days Goodie Box before…
Let me tell you again – It’s full of crafty goodiness (does the word even exist?)!!!

I had to use up everything that came in June box. Yes, even the wrapping tissue!
Would you like to see evidence? Here goes…

Full of flowers of all sorts, this box is totally amazeballs!

Here is how I made my wall hanging – everything apart from paints (Tattered Angels), stencil (Tim Holtz) and stamps, tinting base (DecoArt) and texture paste is from Artful Days. The hanging box used as a base is also from the goodie box!